{"id":621306,"date":"2026-06-04T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621306\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:31:11","slug":"nathaniel-brown-verbal-transfer-agreement-reached-as-arsenal-interest-in-german-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621306\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Brown ‘verbal transfer agreement reached’ as Arsenal interest in German explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal are interested in Nathaniel Brown and keeping close tabs on the Germany international, who seems certain to move on from Eintracht Frankfurt this summer<\/p>\n

17:52, 04 Jun 2026Updated 17:58, 04 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

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Nathaniel Brown reportedly wants to join Bayern Munich this summer(Image: Boris Streubel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich have reportedly reached a verbal agreement with Nathaniel Brown on a five-year contract after positive talks between the Eintracht Frankfurt star and Vincent Kompany.<\/p>\n

football.london understands Arsenal are interested in Brown and keeping close tabs on the situation. There is a belief that the 22-year-old will inevitably move to a bigger club this summer.<\/p>\n

Brown has excelled in the Bundesliga for two seasons since signing from second-division side Nuremberg. Senior international recognition has followed, and the versatile full-back will be at this summer’s World Cup a year on from representing Germany at the European Under-21 Championship.<\/p>\n

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Sky in Germany<\/a> claim Bayern are already in contact with Eintracht. The latter’s sporting director, Markus Kroesche, is said to be demanding as much as \u00a352million (\u20ac60m).<\/p>\n

There is also an acknowledgement that the deal could still stall over Brown’s transfer fee. However, he reportedly wants to join the German champions immediately.<\/p>\n

Kroesche seems set to drive a hard bargain for Brown, though. The sporting director said earlier this year: “For me, he is already one of the best full-backs in Europe.”<\/p>\n

He agreed, when asked by BILD last year, that Brown could cost as much as the \u00a362million deal Chelsea agreed when signing Marc Cucurella from Brighton & Hove Albion. Kroesche said: “Yes because he has three exceptional qualities you can’t teach: he’s smart and tactically intelligent, has great technique, and he’s very fast.<\/p>\n

“He’s made outstanding progress, especially when it comes to defending at a high level. Just look at how he performs against top opponents in the Champions League.”<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s interest in the left-sided right-footed player comes from the potential to add greater versatility to their backline. Myles Lewis-Skelly moving into midfield more permanently would reduce Mikel Arteta’s options at the back.<\/p>\n

Brown is capable of playing in both full-back positions, switching to the right twice last season. Cedric Soares and Takehiro Tomiyasu have previously shown similar versatility under Arteta.<\/p>\n

Piero Hincapie, who will sign permanently this summer, and Riccardo Calafiori are the existing options on the left. However, they can also play a more central role.<\/p>\n

The presence of Brown could allow either Calafiori or Hincapie to cover for Gabriel Magalhaes as the left-sided central defender. That would provide more opportunities to rest the Brazil international and allow one of them to play a less physically demanding role after their injury issues.<\/p>\n

Brown also offers more going forward than both. He has scored seven goals and assisted another ten for Eintracht in 59 matches across all competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are interested in Nathaniel Brown and keeping close tabs on the Germany international, who seems certain to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[324,129699,1766,939,218,101,2297,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arsenal-transfer-news","tag-arsenal-transfer-rumours","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-summer-transfer-window","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}